Was at the farm today went to shoot some pigeons for cage trap bait I was sitting on the apron of a silo and when I looked around the corner and was 10 feet from a mulie buck butt it seen me and walked out to 30 yards and stood there looking back. Seen it several times hanging around the big bales once in the same place 2 days apart. Acts weird but looks healthy a 3X3 with potential in the future but it is either sick, stupid or fearless.


I about left but then went back and it was still standing there looking at me just weird, last night he was standing in front of a building in the driveway.

Nice looking animal!

Do you have more pics Law.. Looking at the hanging belly and what looks like a swayed back.... Are you sure it's a young one?

Osky

That was with my phone but 1st pic I took of it for all of the times I have seen it, a 3X3 spindle rack but did not have the old white face like a older mule deer, the belly is big from the corn pile maybe? LOL

Ah. Sure could be. In this picture it looks plenty mature.

Osky

He's living like the fox do out here he ain't leaving the farm place for some reason and not afraid to be 30 yards from a person in the open mid-day even?

I had a very big doe do that here not that many years ago. Especially liked the Mohican when she was here. Followed here all over. That deer would stand just a few feet away at the shed doors and watch me work on things. Nearly walked into her coming around building corners. I lik d having that deer around.

Osky

I think Hes just comfortable around there with plenty of Chow.

He's thinking, " I'm not a skunk or a badger- so I'm safe !!! " LOL Jerry, if ya try to slap a saddle on it & try for your 8 seconds , please get a video !
Dennis

Got to be something wrong with it.

That's what we say bout u!!!

He may have a brain abscess infection. I shot one twenty feet behind my house this year after watching it walk in circles for twenty minutes. Called my Local LEO and he said go ahead a put it down and issued me a salvage tag later. He was right when he told me what was wrong with it. When cleaning the skull there was a tiny hole just at the base of his left antler. And that thing was full of yuck! Really sad actually to see such a nice animal be totally helpless. Below is the below and after pictures.

Maybe he's seen you shoot!


That is different for sure.

Heck I was so close I could of shot him with a rubber band no problem, he walks fine but one eye is a little weepy but he just never leaves the place the whitetails get that blue tongue (walk in circles) but not the mulies here. We have been hit with that twice in the last 10-12 years it hammered the whitetails but the mule deer do better when we have less whitetails around.

Will let him be and see what happens kind of neat having a semi tame deer hanging around just so it doesn't go medieval some day on my brother-in -law!

Not nessiarly could have just come from someplace where it was being feed regularly and got used to people or even just been around where he has not been molested

The gun range I go to has a couple of deer that hang around and act like that even with guns going off all over the place you will turn around and find one stand a couple yards behind you watching you

Can give you the creeps sometimes to turn around and find one giving you the big eye

Could be corn sick. Cattle brought up on corn too fast will act like that. Might have to catch him and give him some sodium bicarb.

Maybe he was someones bottle baby? It happens here from time to time. A few years ago a guy I knew of raised a buck. It was an 8 pt last year and still came around their place for apples.

Its dangerous to have one and illegal here in WV.

He's probably just used to people and knows you don't have a tag

I agree with this, sometimes if they get into a fight tips of the other deer's antler will break off in their head. Sometimes they will even work into their brains and cause them to look healthy but act weird. At least we've seen that in white tails here.

Is season out ? He may be smarter than you think. Season's over no worries !!!